The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking applications to support archiving and documenting existing data sets in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/16/2025
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The priority of this program is to archive data sets within the scientific mission of the NICHD; highest priority is to archive data collected with NICHD support.
NICHD leads research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. NICHD’s broad and diverse research portfolio supports research related to conception and pregnancy; typical and atypical development in childhood; childhood trauma, injury, and critical illness; the transition from adolescence to adulthood; reproductive health; rehabilitation; intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities; and population dynamics across the lifespan.
Specific Areas of Interest
Examples of activities encouraged by this FOA include, but are not limited to:
- Archiving data from completed clinical trials, including NICHD clinical networks
- Archiving and developing population health, socio-behavioral, and/or demographic data that conform to international standards for data documentation, including adequate descriptions of metadata and searchable instruments for public use
- Cleaning and archiving existing clinical data
- Harmonizing data and measures across multiple data sets
- Enhancement of existing data resources to facilitate use
- Creating data sets that can be made available to the general scientific community from restricted access data that cannot be made publicly accessible because they include identifying or sensitive information. Examples include creating synthetic data and/or constructing de-identified non-sensitive versions of variables
- Data/results of preliminary/exploratory studies that have not previously been made available publicly available
- Archiving data from awards active in FY22 or earlier that plan to submit competing continuations
Funding Information
Application budgets are limited to $50,000 in direct costs per year.
Project Period
The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum period is 2 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher Education
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are not eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
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